“Michinoku-Shinrokuden”: Digital archive project of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster by industry-academia-government-citizen collaboration

Abstract

This paper reviews the Michinoku-Shinrokuden, a joint international project of more than 80 institutes to digitally archive data from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster. The archive aims to be a knowledge base for studying the disaster and also preparing countermeasures for the major earthquakes and tsunamis anticipated in the not-so-distant future in the Tokai, Tonan and Nankai areas in Japan.